Psalms 69:1
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Çalışma Notu
Study Note
The desperate cry 'save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul' opens one of the New Testament's most frequently cited psalms — referenced in John 2:17 (zeal for God's house), John 15:25 (hated without cause), Matthew 27:34/48 (vinegar), Romans 11:9-10 (table become a snare), and Romans 15:3 (bearing reproaches). The 'deep waters' imagery evokes the primordial chaos (tehom) of Genesis 1:2 and the Jonah narrative, placing the psalmist's suffering within the cosmic vocabulary of death and divine absence. Early Christian interpreters read the psalm as a direct messianic prophecy precisely because of its dense New Testament citations, making it a primary source for the theology of Christ's sufferings. The opening cry of drowning became the standard metaphor for overwhelming distress in Christian spiritual vocabulary.
Diğer Çeviriler
Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.
To the Overseer. --`On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.
Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.
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